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The OPTWELD project is about enabling UK industry to design and manufacture innovative,
large and complex welded products for competing in the global market with manageable
technological and financial risks. This will be achieved by replacing physical
experimentation and construction of prototypes with cost-effective real-time virtual
welding technology.

A designer driven simulation approach will be adopted in the development of the
virtual welding tools. The project will produce scalable parallel computational
algorithms and associated software codes for real-time simulation. The artificial
neural network will be further advanced for practical welding optimisation. Validation
will be carried out in laboratory and production to ensure accuracy, robustness and
reliability of the virtual welding software.